Standard for flat-cars.



I. E. BRADY.

STANDARD FOR FLAT CARS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. H, 1917.

Patented July 3, 1917.

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ISAAC E. BRADY, OF HOPE MILLS, NORTH CAROLINA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO EUGENE H. GAINEY, OF HOPE MILLS, NORTH CAROLINA.

STANDARD FOR FLAT-CABS.

Application filed April 11, 1917.

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Be it known that 1, Isaac E. BRADY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hope Mills, in the county of Cumberland and State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Standards for Flat-Cars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to adjustable standards for flat-cars.

An important object of the invention is to provide a standard of the above men tioned character, embodying telescoping members, adapted .to be elevated above the floor of the flat-car for substantial distance, and when collapsed or folded to lie wholly below such floor, thus not interfering with the loading or unloading of the car.

A. further object of the invention is to provide means for binding the load to the fiat-car, such means being adapted to be carried in certain of the tubular sections of the standards.

A further object of the invention is to provide means of the above mentioned character, which are simple in construction, inexpensive to manufacture, strong and durable. Other objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent during the course of the following description.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, and in which like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the same,

Figure 1 is an end elevation of the flatcar, showing my adjustable standards socured thereto,

Fig. 2 is an enlarged side elevation of one standard,

Fig. 3 is an elevation of the inner side of the standard, taken at a right angle to Fig. 2, with the lower portion thereof broken away,

Fig. .tis a longitudinal sectional view taken on line 4.4L of Fig. 3,

Fig. 5 is a similar view taken on line 5 of Fig. 2,

Fig. 6 is a horizontal sectional view taken on line 66 of Fig. 3,

Fig. 7 is a similar view taken on line 7-7 of Fig. 3, and,

Fig. 8 is an elevation of the outer side of the standard, showing the members thereof collapsed.

In the drawings, wherein for the purpose Specification of Letters Patent.

Patent-ed July 3,1911%".

Serial No. 161,319.

of illustration is shown a preferred embodt ment of the invention, the numeral 10 designates the body portion of a flat-car, having a top 11, as shown.

rirranged upon the opposite sides of the body portion 10 are sockets 12, having at taching flanges 13, provided with openings 1-1. The sockets 12 have flanges 15, receiving therebetween U-bolts 16, extending through the openings 14, and attached or anchored to the sides of the body portion 10.

Each standard comprises a plurality of telescoping sections 17, 18 and 19, which are tubular, as shown. The lower tubular section 19 is mounted to slide or telescope within the socket 12, and is provided with a laterally extending pin or member 20, to project into an inverted U-shapcd opening 21, formed in the socket 152. One arm of the opening 21 leads into an interior groove 22, which extends through the bottom of the socket, and adapted to allow the pin 20 to pass therebelow, so that the tubular section 19 may be moved to the lowermost position. which is defined by an annular flange 23, termed upon the upper end thereof, contacting with the top of the socket. The tubular section 18 has its lower end closed by a head 21', and this lower end is mountedto slide in the tubular section 15). The tubular section 18 carries a laterally projecting pin or member 25, adapted to operate in a longitudinal slot 26, formed in the tubular section 19, such slot having an inverted iJ-shaped portion 27 at its upper end. It is apparent that when the pin 25 is in the closed end of the inverted U-shaped slot portion 27, the tubular section 18 will be locked in the upper position, but when this pin is in the slot 26 proper, the tubular section 18 is free to be moved dowi'iwardly into the tubular section 19. until its flanged upper end 28 contacts with the flange 23. As before stated, the lower end of the tubular section 18 is closed by the head '24, thus providing a pocket 29, beneath a horizontal partition 30, fixed to the interior of the tubular section 18, for the reception of a chain 31 or other flexible binding element. One end of this chain is anchored, by suitable means, to the bottom 24. while its free end is adapted to be detachably secured in a slot or keyhole opening 32, formed in the partition 30. The tubular section 18, as clearly shown in Fig. 3, is provided with a longitudinally extending slot 33, communicating with the chamber 239, and with a laterally ext-ending opening 3+, arranged above the partition 30, for a substantial distance. Vhen the chain is in use it is passed through the opening 34, and held thereby against downward dis placement, and the function of the slot 33 is to provide means whereby the chain may be attached to the tubular section 18 at a point substantially equidistantly spaced from the two ends of the standard, when the tubular sections thereof are longitudinally distended. The tubular section 17 has its bottom closed, as shown at 3:"), for the reception of a chain 36 or other flexible binding element, adapted to be stored therein when not in use. The tubular section 17 is provided with a laterally extending pin or member 37, adapted to operate in a longitudinal slot 38, formed in the tubular section 18, and in an inverted U-shapeiil portion 39 of the slot. It is thus apparent that when the pin 37 is in the closed end of the inverted slot portion 39, the tubular section 17 will be locked in the upper position. and by moving the pin 3? into the slot 38 proper, the tubular sec tion 17 may be lowered into the tubular sec tion 18, until its closed flanged end 4.0 contacts with the flange 28. The chain 36 is passed from the upper end of the tubular section 17 through an opening 4C1, and the free end of the chain is adapted to be secured in an opening or key-hole slot 42, formed in a partition 4-3. which is fixed to the interior of the tubular section 17.

The operation of the apparatus is as follows:

hen the tuluilar sections l7, l8, and 19. are collapsed, as clearly shown in Fig. 8, the upper ends thereof are disposed wholly beneath the top of the body portion 10, in no way interfering with the loading or unloading of the flat-ear. After the car has been partly or wholly loaded, as illust 'ated in Fig. l. the tubular sections 17. 18, and '19. are moved to the upper positions, and locked therein, as is obvious. The chains 31 are withdrawn from the tubular sections 18 and hooked over the shoulders of the openings 31, such chains ha ving their free ends connected. by any suitable means, as illustrated in Fig. l. in a, similar manner, the chains 36 may be withdrawn and their free ends connected.

It is to be understood that the form of my invention herewith shown and described is to be taken as a preferred example of the same. and that various changes in the shape, size, and arrangen'ient of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the subjoined claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. An adjustable standard for a fiatear, comprising a sleeve to be secured to the side of the fiat-car and having an 'L-shaped opening and a longitudinal opening communicating tl-ierewith, means to attach the sleeve to the side of the car a plurality of telescoping tubes adapted to be moved longitudinally within the sleeve and having L- shaped openings and longitudinal openings communicating therewith, alateral extension secured to one tube and adapted to operate within. the L-shaped opening of the sleeve, and lateral extensions secured to the remaining tubes and adapted to operate within. the L-shaped openings of the adjacent tubes.

2; An adjustable standard for a flat-car, comprising a vertical sleeve rigidly at tached. to the side of the Hat car beneath the floor thereof and having an L-shaped opening and a longitudinal opening communicating therewith, a. plurality of telescoping tubes adapted to be moved longitudinally within the sleeve and having L-sha-ped openings and longitudinal openings communicating therewith, an annular flange secured to each tube adjacent .its upper end, a lateral extension secured to the lower end of the lmvermost tube and adapted to operate witlr in the L-shaped opening of the sleeve, and. lateral extensions secured to the lower ends of the remaining tubes and adapted to 0p crate within the L-shaped openings in the adjacent tubes.

3. An adjustable standard for a trackcar or the like, comprising a tubular section to ,be connected with the car, a second tubular section mounted to slide within the first .named tubular section and having its lower end closed. and provided with an opening extending through the side thereof, and a flexible binding element arranged within the closed lower end of the second named tubular section, and having its free end adapted to be passed through said opening.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

ISAAC E. BRADY.

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